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Micropayments are blocked by government money laundering regulations increasing the costs significantly to make them untenable.

by Analemma_14 hours ago|

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Micropayments would solve all the problems except for the problem that people absolutely loathe micropayments. Like, vein-popping furiously hate them.

Whenever the topic of micropayments for internet content comes up, a bunch of people start talking about payment processors and their floor on prices, and so on. That's not wrong, but it can be designed around and I think it's a scapegoat to avoid confronting the fact that users despise micropayments and we'd rather blame credit card companies for the lack of adoption.

by mindcandy13 hours ago|

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Micropayments would solve so many problems for the internet. And, cryptocurrencies would solve so many problems for micropayments. But, it's a non-starter because any proposal gets flooded with people popping veins about how crypto can't solve anything.

by imglorp12 hours ago|

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It doesn't need to be crypto, or payment processor based.

My ideal experience would be I load $20 into the browser somewhere like a wallet in one block (that could be a payment processor step). If I visit a participating page, it decrements my wallet $.01 or whatever.

The downside is the possibility of abuse and tracking by governments, which would have to be handled at the source, not the symptom.

by landgenoot2 hours ago|

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I worked on this before. You can solve the privacy issue using "statistical payments", by lack of a better word.

You visit website A,A,A,B,C,D,A,A

At the end of the month, you send your entire 20$ randomly to one of the websites you visited.

This will level out everyone's contribution and reward websites with lots of traffic. It eliminates the need for micropayments.